What I Have Entrusted to Him

To totally entrust something of great value to someone else is a really big deal in our lives. Our very lives may hinge on it. Are we willing to risk it? Just how do we feel about it? Do we have inner fears, anxieties, and doubts?

Everything depends on the trustworthiness of the one being entrusted. We need to know them well — know their character, strength, ability, care — and most importantly, their love for us.

That’s how life was for Paul. He had been a staunch Jew, and then came to faith in Jesus. He entrusted his whole well-being and eternal life into Jesus’ hands. All that in the face of what God said in Acts 9:15-16,

… he is a chosen instrument of Mine, to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel; for I will show him how much he must suffer for My name’s sake.

God determined ahead of time what Paul needed to “suffer” for God’s sake in bringing the gospel to all sorts of people — and Paul was well aware of what was in store. Because Paul knew that God Almighty appointed him to serve by preaching and teaching, Paul willingly put himself in God’s care, saying in 2 Timothy 1:12,

For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.

Do we know in whom we “have believed”? Are we “convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day”?

We look at all that God has done in creation and throughout history. He is trustworthy. So, we entrust Him to keep our souls “until that day”.